 | 1842 - 612 pagini
...dreadful groan, Which, through the ages that have gone before us, In long reverberations reach our own. The bursting shell, the gateway wrenched asunder,...in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. Is it, O man! with such discordant noises, With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's... | |
 | International peace society - 232 pagini
...each sacked and burning village; The shout that every prayer for morcy drowns; The soldiers' revels in the midst of pillage; The wail of famine in beleaguered towns; The bursting shell, the gateway wrench'd asunder, The rattling musketry, the clashing blade ; And ever and anon, in tones of tbuuder,... | |
 | 1869 - 406 pagini
...prayer for mercy drowns, The soldier's revels in the midst of carnage, The wail of famine in beleagered towns. The bursting shell, the gateway wrenched asunder,...tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade." Far be it from me to rejoice in hie downfall, or to withhold the slightest commiseration from him in... | |
 | 1844 - 784 pagini
...each sacked and burning village; The shout, that every prayer for mercy drowns; The soldiers' revels in the midst of pillage, The wail of famine in beleaguered...in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. Is it, oh man, with such discordant noise?, With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drown est... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pagini
...each sacked and burning village; The shout, that every prayer for mercy drowns; The soldiers' revels in the midst of pillage, The wail of famine in beleaguered...The bursting shell, the gateway wrenched asunder, 10 The rattling musketry, the clashing blade; And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason... | |
 | 1846 - 308 pagini
...each sacked and burning village; The shout that every prayer for mercy drowns ; The soldiers' revels in the midst of pillage; The wail of famine in beleaguered...in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. Is it, 0 in •.», with such discordant noises, With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drownest... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1846 - 178 pagini
...each sacked and burning village ; The shout that every prayer for mercy drowns ; The soldiers' revels in the midst of pillage ; The wail of famine in beleaguered...in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. Is it, O man, with such discordant noises, With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drownest Nature's... | |
 | Presbyterian Church of England - 1857
...each sacked and burning village, The shout that every prayer for mercy drowns, The soldier's revels in the midst of pillage, The wail of famine in beleaguered...in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. It is, O man, with such discordant noises — With such accursed instruments as these — Thou drownest... | |
 | 1873 - 398 pagini
...for mercy drowns ; The soldiers' revels in the midst of pillage ; The wail of famine in beleagured towns. The bursting shell, the gateway wrenched asunder,...tones of thunder, , The diapason of the cannonade ! Is it, O man, with such discordant noises, With such accursed instruments as these, Thou drownest... | |
 | 1847 - 526 pagini
...more to see the vanquish'd yield. Richmond Republican. 41. The bursting shell, the gateway wrench'd asunder, The rattling musketry, the clashing blade...in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. BEAST. — (See ANIMAL). BEAUTY. 1. The glass of fashion, and the mould of form, The observ'd of all... | |
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The bursting shell, the gateway wrenched asunder, The rattling musketry, the clashing blade; And ever and anon, in tones of thunder, The diapason of the cannonade. 
